milord

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪˈlɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

From French milord, from English my Lord. Compare milady.

milord (plural milords)

1. (British, obsolete, humorous) An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, section 49:

     Not since the year 17—, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.

• milor

A variant spelling of m'lord, elided from my +‎ lord.

milord (plural milords)

1. Alternative form of m'lord.
   • 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, 3: "Potato"

     Aah-ahhh! You have a woman’s hand, milord! I’ll wager these dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.

milord (third-person singular simple present milords, present participle milording, simple past and past participle milorded)

1. To address as “milord”.
   • 1834 May 1, “The Reefer’s First Cruise”, in H[enry] W[illiam] Herbert, editor, The American Monthly Magazine, volume III, number III, New York, N.Y.: […] Monson Bancroft, […] G. & C. & H. Carvill, […] and Peter Hill, […], page 189:

     A few pauls a-piece, however, did the business, and after a few more tunes, and some more milordi and capitani, the musicians, finding no more prospect of pauls, departed, leaving the landlord to do the rest of the milording and captaining to the honored Americani.

   • 1854, Crotchet Crayon [pseudonym], “How Mrs. Dobbs arrived in Paris, and made a new acquaintance. […]”, in The Rival Houses of the Hobbs and Dobbs: or, Dress-Makers & Dress-Wearers, London: G. Routledge & Co., […], page 50:

     Poor, humble, unaspiring Mr. Dobbs was “Milorded,” to his great annoyance, by everybody, at the Parisian hotel; and monsieur the landlord thought it but right that the rich English “Milord” should pay for the superior accommodation himself and family received at “Le Grand Hôtel.”

   • 1885, Antonio [Carlo Napoleone] Gallenga, “First Repentance. […]”, in Episodes of My Second Life. (American and English Experiences.), Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 275:

     To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.

   • 1998, Laurel Schunk, Death in Exile, Wichita, Kan.: St Kitts Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 11–12:

     “ […] I must fetch the doctor for her, milord.” Quill’s eyebrows rose. “You’re hiding her? And no ‘milording’ me. I’m the same old Quill.”

Borrowed from English my Lord. See also milady.

• IPA^(key): /mi.lɔʁ/

milord m (plural milords)

1. (archaic) milord, an English lord abroad
   • 1959, Edith Piaf singing Georges Moustaki's "Milord"
   • Laissez-vous faire, Milord,
     Venez dans mon royaume:
     Je soigne les remords,
     Je chante la romance,
     Je chante les milords
     Qui n'ont pas eu de chance!

     Let yourself go, Milord.
     Come into my kingdom:
     I treat your remorse,
     I sing of romance,
     I sing of milords
     who've never had a chance!

2. (figurative, informal, dated) a rich man
3. a horse-drawn car with a raised seat for the driver

• “milord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English milord.

milord m (invariable)

1. lord, milord
2. dandy (elegant man)

Borrowed from English milord.

milord m (plural milords)

1. (Jersey) swell

Borrowed from French milord.

milord m (plural milorzi)

1. milord

• milord in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from English milord.

• IPA^(key): /miˈloɾd/ [miˈloɾð̞]
  • Rhymes: -oɾd
  • Syllabification: mi‧lord
• IPA^(key): /miˈloɾ/ [miˈloɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ

milord m (plural milores)

1. milord

• “milord”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024